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The Next Election

The Liberal Party assembly | at Bournemouth, which anw, the decision of the Liberala to fight the next election S Independent and an Individual party, is over.

But it will probably be 1950 before we in Britain and out what the result of that decision will be. At least, at the mo ment. Labour has no intention of having un election before then.

By FRANK FISHER

...... that euch voter can vote only for one man....the single

vote. nou-transferable

Thus 10,000,000 Liberals or Conser- vatives or Labouriten could vote for their 'candidates in an election in the country and, conceivably, not elect a single member to Parliament,

So let us analyse the results

cialists, and that makes 1,000,- 000. Take another 1,000,000 from discontented Torics and

have you

13,000,000 which would make the Liberals nearly the biggest party in the coun- try.

It has to be recorded that the Liberal "Manchester Guardian" in reporting a speech by Mr. E. Martell, Chairman of the Ap-} peits Committee, in which he xave roughly these figures, sald; And, if it la 1959, there miay

"An Interesting and, as a good bo all sorts of changes in Bri-of-the last election it many seemed to think, amusing tain which will alter the deef- showed that, as a result of the analysis..." and then it added Bournemouth. war and, probably, of the pre- that his optimistic forecast was sion" taken. nt

war years, there had been received with some rather in- Nobody knows what the condi tion of Britain will be in three huge swing to the Left. Last eredulous smilen, years time and it is that, which time the Labour Party benefit- will away men then, and not a ed from this swing. Who will party

beneill next time? conference today. other words, whether it Was The Liberals think they will intended that way or not, the And for this reason. In 1945 Bournemouth decision was, in 32,836,419 people voted,

these 11,992,292 voted Labour effect, an interim one.

Never since 1911 have the 8,666,666 Conservative and only !!! Liberals of this country heen 2,239,868 Liberal. There

Ground also a Liberal national vote of no sure of themselves. between the upper and the 769,883, but break that down nether millstones of Conserva- into its component parts and it tism and Labour they have would probably turn out to be to sentimentality, the emergence; nevertheless

much maintained their as

Conservative

THE GRACIE CASE When James Kenneth Gracie was sent to prison for eight years yesterday, for a crime against his war, the sentence add. ed nothing to our pride in the in- British exurable workings of justice. It was, in fact, a savage sentence, a sentence which cannot fail to shock the public conscience, stirring again the conviction that there is something ugly, wrong. contemptuous about the continued vindictive pursuit of some of those who crred when so many have been permitted to escape. Lust for vengeance vanished in the majority of us long age Partly that has been due perhaps

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now

considerably

In

Lou-

Inst fri stituencies in the months, and have become aware) of that large floating vote

La this country which voted hour at the last election chielly to spite the Tories and now is turning away from Labour but with no great desire to enter the Tory fold.

of the spirit of forgiveness imme-identity, kept up some sort of Liberal. diately the hour of crisis is over. organisation, have expanded Operative also however is the knowledge that so many of the collaborators with the midst, enemy' are free in our

famous thanks

that amnesty which relieved the Hong King authorities of the responsi bility and the embarrassment of taking action. In the light of these circumstances, the Gracie sentence calls for revision, if not hy the Courts, then by the exercise of executive clemency. The most vital facts in the case, as so simply stated by the accused, were never challenged. On the contrary, prosecuting

12 Years Ago

Of

that

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But the fact that a responsi- ble delegate could talk in this way at the conference shows the temper of the Liberal Party to- day. It is on the way up. member are optimistic, eager and anxious to match swords with the two Opposition parties, And that Is at least part of a

The Sewing

battle.

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

ACC

AGETALY

And if you don't care to cook for any of those, Mrs.

~Q'Dowd, we'll have another lineup tomorrow!"

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authoritles"

There are other things in their favour, There is a swing Away from the Labour Party, especially among the middle and Jower middle classes. As yet this Where, then, in the faer of has not showed up much in by- election pollings (on the con- these figures does this Liberal; travy.) and nobody knows how optiniam come from. Firstly, it big it is, Conceivably by 1950 it

from! something that comes happened 12 years ago, the 1936 night grow into large pro- portions. Conceivably, too, it election, Then the Liberal vote might wear itself out. was only 1.375,166 (ánd a Liber-

On the other hand there la ai national vote of 856,095 to no great awing towards the These unknown thousands are which the remarks made above Conservative Party and, in the] the people

upon whom

the on this point also apply), Thus opinion of impartial observora, Liberals baso their brave hopes in the face of 12 years of very there is not likely to be as long One of the toughest guess

very small representation f The Revival

Parliament, of bigger but still as the party is run as traing games possible at the bridge today. Even its own supporters table enlists the participation cmall representation in the admit that it lacks inspiration of both pairs after one player there be mistake press of the country, Let

autaide Mr. Churchill,

has made a pre-emptive bid. It Liberal revival. face of the old British counsel about, the

There are now more than 500 party tradition, which is still ders, too. And no opposition is especially lively if the high

its position without forcible his suit and extreme shortage thought his active Liberal organisations in enormously strong, the Liberala Party can prosper and enlarge bidder's partner has some of to a misunderstanding. North an in- increased their vote by 900,000. leadership. Not just from onet elsewhere, with the opponents was for business, so the bust- the constituencies, or

But that is only half the pic-i man crease of more than, 200 in the

adapted the unusual course of making supporting statement in mitigation of penalty. "If it is rong for a man to battle for a

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Was due

Unearned

living/ to save his wife and child last year. In fact, the number ture. The Liberals polled their half-dozen. This the Conserva- high cards with a fitting suit points when he got an extra

of local associations represent- 2.239,068 votes in only 306 con- from the gutter," said Gracie, ed at Bournemouth was a re-stituencies, less than half of the Not 040 represented in the present) "then have nothing more to cord by more than 100. say." "Because had a Japanese only that, but many young men House of Commons. They, or rise-ome of them, argue that if wife and child, the British Re- in the universities and sidents Asscitish left them to where, men with no

values.

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The result at Table

partner's double the top, but from the having a goodly sprinking ofness pass by North presented

East with Bome tive Party lacks.

of their own. Frequently in trick. The South who bid 4- Thus there is a great

Op Auch cases, the pair with less

No Trumps, meaning it as a power enn scoro

takeout in Rome Liberal Party. portunity ahead for a resurgent high card

But-and there is a "but more tricks at its fitting sult force for a precon- they double, the number of con- there is also another side to the than the stronger fellows can other suit, got his side a good sink or swim.could not desert, ceived notions imposed by their stituencies they fight they can picture, The Liberals, too, lack at their trump, due to ruffing score, as it was set only one then." For his offence, broad-positions in the world, are really doable their vote. Then, dynamic leadership. Their for-

they say, add to this 5,000,000, casting from a German radio turning toward Liberalisra.

It was this that helped the the votes of all the discontented mer leader, Sir Archibald Bin- clair, who headed them in the station in Shanghai and assisting Liberals

Radients Bournemouth Labour voters, the at

House of Commons until his de- declare their inde- rather than the confirmed So- feat in 1946, was not even at it anti-Allied propaganda, he

proudly had, prior to his production in pendence. "It takes two to

the Bournemouth conference. Hong Kong, on the authority of a make an alliance," proclaimed most interesting legal submission, Mr. Isaac Foot, replying to Mr. spent ten months in a Chinese Winston Churchill's Primrose gaol in Shanghai. Gracie, in League speech in which he dal- fact, and as very small fry in- lled with the idea of a work- deed, has had punishment enough. ing agreement between the two To put him in Stanley Prison for parties.

for right years,

offence embitterment and arising in deriving from one of the strongest instincts of man, the welfare of wife and children, offends all the humanities.

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COST OF LIVING The steady fall in the Labour Officer's cost of living index figures seems likely to involve in the near future a further cut in the official rehabilitation allow- ances which are linked with the index. Within two months, the drop has been approximately 83.

which can be made to

appear

more impressive by converting to percentages, on which basis it is) suggested that a reduction approximately twenty per

of

cent.

has been registered in the cost of the worker's food and fuel. There

is, of course, a fallacy somewhere. The price modifications recorded

That was the most import- ant thing about the meeting because, in the beller of inany impartial observers in thin country, if the Liberals and Conservatives did reach a work- Ing agreement in the stituencies in the next election throw the Labour they could Government out 'neck and cróp! thanks to the Bridgh electoral system.

Single Vote

con-

For when dealing with Bri- tish politics one fact above all others has to be remembered

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Their present leader in the H9763 House, Mr. Clement Davies, D K M.P. for Montgomery. is an CAQ 4 estimable man. Courageous and hardworking, but he is no Da- vid Lloyd George. And to win large blocks of votes in Britain today resurgent parties need the kind of glamorous leader- ship that the "Wizard from Walca" used to provide.

Thus, although we may get a Liberal revival at the polls that single non-transferable vote I have mentioned earlier hamstring the party just as it

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London, May 20. The 20 visits to Ankara and Teheran of Admiral Richard Connolly, the does today. With its 2,239,668 There were plenty of other Commander of the Unit- voters only returning 12 men denouements where East open-l

to parliament, the Liberals na- cd States Fleet in the turally think the present system ed with 4-8pades, as he did at Eastern Atlantic Mediterranean, were in- quarters here today as "showing the flag."

and

Aitmiral Connolly's tour was officially described as a visit of

Liberals

:

After North's 1-Diamond, of voting is wrong. But their most tables of a big duplicato. South's 1-Spade and North's 2-

because the long diamonds of- action? opponents comment, with cruel! It seemed to be a preferred bid Diamonds, what is the wluhing

that out should have found truthfulness that the when they were in power and should have altered it then. It is not a lógical argument, but it

100 Years inspection of the units of the is an understandable one.

Ago Today

United States Navy now on a goodwill mission to Eastern

"Idiots'

i

graphie demand to Mr. Welles to furnish proof of his accusa- tions or admit he was a lar and agitator."

Thus, really to come back, the

Romo, May 20. In A two-column front page Liberals must poll somewhere

against both M. Communist leader Palmiro tovective Mediterranean ports..

near parity with the other two Togliatti today called American Welles and American policies In When a senior naval officer parties, Then they can split the anti-Communists "Idiote," and general in the Communist daily visita a foreign country, it is not Tory-Laluir hold on the House declared that former United "Upita," the Communist leader, in the index do perhaps convey a 22, 1847),

(From the "China Mail," Moy unusual; it was considered or of Commons and possibly, if the States Under Secretary of State (in a sighed article)-saldi...

dinary in Whitehall, for him to fates are kind, win for them- Sumner Welles had strengthen though they did not know each broad picture of the market, ten- Notice The undersigned being enll on the Prime Minister and selves predominating power. If ed Italians Communism in his other he could recall Mr. Wel- dency, but it is extremely difficult about to leave Chinu hereby in-the Minister of Defence an Ad they return less than a hundred recent radio warning that les European trip of 1940 "to to convince the workman with an timates that he iesirious of miral Connolly has done In members they must inevitably Togliatti's party with "funds study the Fascist tyrants when empty pocket that somewhere disposing of the whole of his Teheran and will do in Ankara. become the minor half of a from Moscow" was about to he (Welics) spoke first of all of his mode of dress, of bla of coalition at best. And the amali- gain control in Italy. along the line he has benefited Household Furniture and Effecta Admiral Connolly's tour

Bignor Togliatti's statement ties, his shoes and the cut of from the changes. In fact when as they now are at his Hotel the Near East is at a period est party to the House at worst.

situated on the Prayn Gronde, to-day's Legislative Council meet Macao. Also 7 Hotels, 2 Gigs, Greece and Turkey have Just

when United States loans to United Press.

followed his yesterday's tele- his trousers."-United Press. ing has authorised a general in- a handsome four-wheeled Car.

and is crease in rents by thirty per cent ringo, Apply in Hong Kong to Mr. Pagged Congress.

cognised by political observera I here to have -a considerable potential Importance for working the workman will derive small;

At a Meeting, of Members of out local 'defence plans. consolation from official statistica

the Hong Kong Club held on The main question which asserting that his food is costing Tuesday on the 4th Instant, the Admiral- Connolly's visit, him less. It is not, of course, to following resolution was proposed Tehoran ralaes is

to become effective as from July. Farncomb, Solicitor.

I next, if we know our landlords.

whether

re

to

be denied that the Labour Officer by A. Carter, Esq., Seconded, by foreshadows an American ́ loan) has recognised the difficulty. On TW, Mockean, Eaq and carried to Persia on terms similar cach occasion when strict con- unanimously:

to

formity to the original formulä "That this General Meeting bet those voted for Greece and by which rehabilitation allowances adjourned until the 15th Instant Turkey. In that case Washing- are varied would have involved and a Committee be now formed on would take closer interent a sharp and sudden reduction in consisting of-Major Burn, Cap: in the defence of Persia and the

tain McQuhne, Wilkinson Dent Persian Gulf Router. H.C.L. awards, a means has been Esq., C. J. Brine, Esq. 3. Jardine, found usually andther adjust- Esq, D. Fletcher, Esq., A. Carter, Tho. Duchess of Kent, who is

London, May 20. ment of the formula of avoiding | Erque),

the posing of such a dangerous With power to add to to pay a visit to Greece for the issue, dangerous that is to harmo- their numbers, to revise first time since before the war, nious employer labour"" relations, and if Necessary, Tomode) will leave. Britain, for Athons For the imediato-requi impents the Standing rules of the Club, on Tuesday of next week in one af expediency, this meets the with it to the alered circum. Might and

with a view to accomodate that of the planes of the King's case. Obviously, however, it la stances of the Colphy and Gar- The Duchess, who is to be most unfatisfactory and obviojal, man, and to proper mensured för kway for only a few weekn, will 100 it in a procedure that cannot, the formation of a Library in con- are her mother, Princeki epeated, Indefinitely without, section with the Chubs and that Nicholas. They last met when icing, the whole thing to a this proposition, belprinted kel the Frizioen ylälted England

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